Count to 100 using pictures

[classic33]

Who said it wasn't rocket science?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Year 853 (DCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

The Fraumünster Church (Switzerland)

EventsEdit
By placeEdit
Byzantine EmpireEdit

• May 22 – A Byzantine fleet (85 ships and 5,000 men) sacks and destroys the port city of Damietta located on the Nile Deltain Egypt. A large quantity of weapons and supplies intended for the Emirate of Crete are captured.[1]

EuropeEdit

• Viking marauders in Gaul sail eastward from Nantes without opposition and reach Tours. The monasteries at Saint-Florent-le-Vieil and Marmoutier are ravaged.
• King Charles the Bald bribes Boris I, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, to form an alliance against his brother Louis the German with Rastislav of Moravia.[2]
• Gauzbert, count of Maine, is killed during an ambush by citizens of Nantes in revenge for the death of Lambert II.[3]

BritainEdit

• King Burgred of Mercia appeals to Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, for help against the rebellious Welsh king Rhodri the Great. Æthelwulf agrees to send help, and Wales is subdued as far north as Anglesey.[4]
• Burgred (who inherited his crown last year) marries Æthelwulf's daughter Æthelswith. They are married during a ceremonyat the royal estate at Chippenham.[4]

ChinaEdit

• Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, Chinese author and scholar during the Tang Dynasty, publishes Miscellaneous Offerings from Yu-yang.

By topicEdit
ReligionEdit

• The Fraumünster Church in Zürich (modern Switzerland) is founded by Louis the German.

BirthsEdit

• Abu Jafar al-Tahawi, Muslim scholar (d. 933)
• Adelaide, queen of the West Frankish Kingdom (or 850)
• Ma Yin, Chinese warlord and king (approximate date)

DeathsEdit

• Gauzbert, count of Maine (approximate date)
• March 27 – Haymo, bishop of Halberstadt
• Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Muslim imam (or 852)
• Theodrada, daughter of Charlemagne (or 844)

References

 

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Ten posts without a picture of a train - standards are slipping

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ten posts without a picture of a train - standards are slipping Rising

FTFY!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What we need is some Lego!:

 

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Cannae see anything

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Uh, ok then....

One the many near geriatric electric locos in Germany now being used by private companies (and long may it continue)!:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Alternatively, there is this:

Down on the farm with Grandpa back in the day!! (No, it isn't me, I have no idea who they are):

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

But this is what that Gramps might smoke later...

 

[classic33]

Alternatively, there is this:

Down on the farm with Grandpa back in the day!! (No, it isn't me, I have no idea who they are):

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That's what they all say

 

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[Mad Doug Biker]

Its a semi 'naked' A380-861! (A388):

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A not so great picture of 'Warship' D862 Viking